Weekly Update 395

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Data breach verification: that seems like a good place to start given the discussion in this week’s video about Accor. Watch the vid for the whole thing but in summary, data allegedly taken from Accor was published to a popular hacking forum and the headlines inevitably followed. However,

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Weekly Update 394

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I suggest, based on my experiences with data breaches over the years, that AT&T is about to have a very bad time of it. Class actions following data breaches have become all too common and I’ve written before about how much I despise them. The trouble

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Weekly Update 393

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A serious but not sombre intro this week: I mentioned at the start of the vid that I had the classic visor hat on as I’d had a mole removed from my forehead during the week, along with another on the back of my hand. Here in Australia,

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Weekly Update 392

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Let’s get straight to the controversial bit: email address validation. A penny-drop moment during this week’s video was that the native browser address validator rejects many otherwise RFC compliant forms. As an example, I asked ChatGTP about the validity of the pipe symbol during the live

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Weekly Update 389

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How on earth are we still here? You know, that place where breached companies stand up and go all Iraqi information minister on the incident as if somehow, flatly denying the blatantly obvious will make it all go away. It’s the ease of debunking the “no breach

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Weekly Update 388

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It’s just been a joy to watch the material produced by the NCA and friends following the LockBit takedown this week. So much good stuff from the agencies themselves, not just content but high quality trolling too. Then there’s the whole ecosystem of memes that have

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Weekly Update 387

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It’s a short video this week after a few days in Sydney doing both NDC and the Azure user group. For the most part, I spoke about the same things as I did at NDC Security in Oslo last month… except that since then we’ve had

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Weekly Update 386

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Somehow, an hour and a half went by in the blink of an eye this week. The Spoutible incident just has so many interesting aspects to it: loads of data that should never be returned publicly, awesome response time to the disclosure, lacklustre transparency in their disclosure, some really fundamental

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Weekly Update 385

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I told ya so. Right from the beginning, it was pretty obvious what “MOAB” was probably going to be and sure enough, this tweet came true:

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Weekly Update 384

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I spent longer than I expected talking about Trello this week, in part because I don’t feel the narrative they presented properly acknowledges their responsibility for the incident and in part because I think the impact of scraping in general is misunderstood. I suspect many of us are

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